anima® ALL / anima® PRO

Both anima® ALL and anima® PRO use the same installer and exactly the same install options. The software will become a PRO (perpetual) or an ALL (subscription) version depending only on the type of license used, which can be chosen after the installation process is completed.

First, get the installer for the version you want to use. Then, launch the installer by executing the downloaded *.exe file (i.e “anima_installer_5.0.0.exe”).

To successfully complete the installation, the installer must run with a user account that has administrator privileges. Also, before installing anima®, make sure to close the anima® Designer application and all the host 3D apps for the anima® plugins that you might have open (3ds Max®, Maya®, Cinema 4d®, and Unreal Engine®), to let the installer copy, overwrite, or remove all the necessary files for the new version.

  1. Right after the execution, Windows will show a warning message to notify that the installer requested administrator privileges. Please, click YES to continue.
  2. A Welcome screen from the installer app will appear,  click Next.


  3. Please review the License Agreement and if you agree with its terms click I Agree.


  4. Choose the Workstation option.


  5. If compatible versions of 3ds Max®, Maya®,  Cinema4D®, or Unreal Engine® are detected, they will be automatically selected.


    …If there is some application version that is not automatically detected by the installer, you can manually choose it and it will ask you to fill in manually the root path of that version later.


  6. Choose the directory where you want anima® to be installed (Click Browse to select a custom location or click Install to keep the default one).


  7. If some plugin version was selected manually, now the installer will ask for the location of that version:


  8. A new dialog will appear with a progress bar and a log showing the software components that are being installed:


  9. When the installation process ends, click Finish to close the installer.
    If you want to run anima® right away, select the Launch anima® option (notice that by selecting this option in the installer, the anima® process will be started with “admin” privileges, but only this first time).



Launching anima® from the installer may cause problems to access MAPPED DRIVES. When this happens, anima® is executed in the same “admin” environment used by the installer and, if those mapped drives have not been set up in the “admin” user account yet, the anima® process won’t be able to access them either. To solve the problem just close anima® and start it again using the anima® shortcut from the Windows Start menu. Learn more about this issue in the article Using anima® on a network.


When anima® is started for the first time it will not have any license activated yet, so it will be shown as the LITE version (free demo with limitations). To activate a purchased license please follow the instructions described in the Licensing Guide.


anima® Render Node

The process to install the anima® Render Node version and its plugins are almost the same, the only difference is in step 4 of the process described above, where you must select the RENDER NODE option:



Batch installation / Silent Mode

If you are a system admin, notice that it is possible to automate the installation of anima® from a command-line script.

To learn more about that process please read the following article:

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